@#4 ... For starters ... ...

... and then there is the topic of this thread, those ~suspicious~ trades.

OK, regarding Pres Trump, what grifting may have been shone the light of day this past week?

For starters ...

The fund that may give millions of dollars to those Trump allies who attacked the Capitol and the Capitol Police on Jan6.

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... President Donald Trump on Wednesday confused his predecessors Joe Biden and Barack Obama while touting the purported successes of his ongoing war on Iran -- and boasted that he has lost "only" 13 U.S. service members in the unpopular conflict. ...

Oh dear.

Is the Trump family apparent history of mental acuity decline starting to show its face with Pres Trump?

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... US lawmakers plan to introduce an amendment Thursday at a House committee markup hearing that would prohibit any recipient of federal highway funding from using automated license plate readers for any purpose other than tolling"a sweeping restriction that, if adopted, would bring an immediate end to state and local ALPR programs across the United States.

The amendment, obtained first by WIRED, is sponsored by Representative Scott Perry, a Pennsylvania Republican and Freedom Caucus member, and Representative Jess "Chuy" Garca, an Illinois progressive whose state has become a flash point in the national fight over ALPR misuse. ...

@#9 ... He raced on May 17 and now he's dead?
That's a pretty serious sudden illness. ...

Agreed.

My guess is that we might not ever know the illness and reason for his death.

@#12

The usual trolling ...

(I have other opinions, but I choose not to post them.)

@#4

With Pres Trump's approval ratings in the gutter, that may be a reason. But, still, early reporting. Let's see what develops...

Meanwhile ...

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/HJA_lmPWkAE_Ji7.jpg

@#8

Yup.

... reopen the Strait of Hormuz ...

So ... go back to the way the Strait had been before Pres Trump's unprovoked war with Iran?

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... Trump did not say what else would be included in an agreement. "Final aspects and details of the Deal are currently being discussed, and will be announced shortly," Trump said.

Iran's Fars news agency reported early on Sunday that the agreement would allow Iran to manage the Strait of Hormuz. It said Trump's assertion that an agreement was nearly final was "inconsistent with reality."
...

@#2

Still early reporting.

Stay tuned ...

@#3 ... The person who would be responsible for enforcing this just handed Trump a get out of jail free card for his IRS tax fraud investigation along with $1.8 billion tax dollars. ...

Yup.

That is what happens when you appoint your own private criminal defense lawyer as the Acting AG of the United States.

... A federal judge on Wednesday ordered White House staff and President Trump's top advisers to comply with a law that requires certain presidential records to be preserved. ...

I wonder what the prediction-betting sites have to say about the odds of the Trump admin complying with this order?

@#3 ... I wonder if Sullivan's aware of how ironic this is? ...

My first guess would be that Sen Dan Sullivan has not a clue of any irony in his comments.

He seems to care only about himself and not his Constituents.

... IDF soldiers in southern Lebanon continue in widespread looting and pillaging. An IDF reservist admitted: "There was another mission [in Lebanon] -- an unofficial one: Taking out all the loot." ...

So, an Israeli soldier seems to admit that a goal of Israel is to pillage Lebanon, in addition to destroying Lebanon?

@#5 ... There's no agreement Trump won't break if it suits him. ...

That is the main problem that Iran faces in negotiating with Pres Trump. And Iran has said as much.

And, for the record, I will say up front that my view of the current Iran regime is that it is evil, just like the prior occupants of the regime.

But, Pres Trump's actions have shown the Iran's regime to be correct when it says that Pres Trump is not trustworthy.

Take a step back and let that sink in.

Iran's evil regime may be correct when it says that Pres Trump cannot be trusted.

... Democratic National Committee Chair Ken Martin on Thursday released the party's autopsy report on the 2024 election ...

One of the worst-written reports I have ever seen be issued by a politcal party.

I mean, really, no wonder the Dems didn't want to release it.

That aside ...

Campaigning upon dislike of then-candidate Trump - not good, but done anyway, in a major manner.

Campaigning upon the positive things the Dems proffer - good, but not done, at a level that could be seen.

The question that lingers like an unclaimed air biscuit is, did the Dems learn from that disaster?

@#3 ... Thank God the illegal DOGE morons gutting USAID and brain worm Kennedy and his dips*&^ lackeys destroyed the CDC while also pulling us out of WHO. ...

A blunt, yet succinct, summary. thx.

... Who knows, maybe an Ebola outbreak reaching the US is what's needed for the MAGA dumbf*&^s to ...

I remain to be convinced that MAGA is capable of changing its worship of Pres trump.

@#6 NW

Yeah, based upon some of the videos I've seen on the science-oriented networks, some scuba divers, I'll hrase it as, go to the extremes. Entering an undersea passageway where it appears that there is not enough room to turn around in order to exit. So the only option seems to be continue going deeper into that passageway.

@#27

ABC seems to be the next target of Pres Trump.

No wheels, or a road for that matter. But transportation nonetheless ...

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... A revised WHO assessment has moved the risk level from "high" to "very high" at the national level, while risk remains "high" at the regional level and "low" at the global level, Tedros added.

WHO officials have acknowledged that a delay in detecting and responding to the outbreak enabled it to balloon, and that they are now racing to get ahead of the virus.

WHO representative Dr. Anne Ancia spoke during today's briefing from the DRC, saying that when officials got to the area, they found the virus was "already rampant and silently disseminating for a few weeks already." In the outbreak investigation so far, the earliest known suspected case was in a health worker, who developed symptoms on April 24 in Bunia, the capital city of Ituri. WHO only got word of a potential outbreak on May 5, with news of a cluster of deadly, unidentified infections that led to the deaths of four health workers. By the time a WHO team arrived, there were already 80 cases.

"Now we are sprinting behind [the virus] so that we can really try to control this outbreak, and because it is still transmitting for the time being, yes, the number [of cases] will keep rising for some time until we are really able to put all the response operation in place," she said. ...